your problem is that you did not give the opportunity to use your hard
drive to your kernel.
for example if your root partition is on an ide drive and an ext2fs [this
is your case], you should at least put IN the kernel the driver for IDE
hard drive and for ext2 filesystem (i mean that you can not compile these
as modules for the moment. There is a way to acheive this but it is far
more complicated -search for "initial ramdisks").
I don't think you need to put 3 lists in copy for such a message linux
kernel mailing list should be kept aside from user admin problems. keep
sending to linux newbie...
hope this helps
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: Cristian POP [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 8:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.2.9 Kernel Panic!
Hi all,
I'm kind of newbie in linux.
I installed RH 6.0 in server mode, with kernel 2.2.5
I want to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.9 (test only)
After compiling the kernel and booting I get the following
message and kernel doesn't boot :
....
Starting kswapd v1.5
request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:08
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08
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and hangs!
At compile time it says this:
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Root device is (3, 8)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3540 bytes.
System is 346 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.9/arch/i386/boot'
in lilo.conf :
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boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
# timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=linux
root=/dev/hda8
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=new
root=/dev/hda8
read-only
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TIA,
C-ya,
Cristian POP
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